Najibullah Zazi

Najibullah Zazi is an AfghanAmerican who was arrested in September 2009 as part of the 2009 U.S. Al Qaeda group accused of planning suicide bombings on the New York City Subway system, and who pleaded guilty as have two other defendants. U.S. prosecutors said Saleh alSomali, AlQaedas head of external operations, and Rashid Rauf, an AlQaeda operative, ordered the attack. Both were later killed in drone attacks.

Zazi was born in a village in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. He has two sisters and two brothers. At the age ofin 1992, he and his family moved to the city of Peshawar in Pakistan where they settled as Afghan refugees.

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